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Nahum, and Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggeus, Zachary, and Malachy, which is called also an angel
of the Lord.
CHAPTER ESDRAS 2
Thus saith the Lord, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them my commandments by
menservants the prophets; whom they would not hear, but despised my counsels.
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The mother that bare them saith unto them, Go your way, ye children; for I am a widow and
forsaken.
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I brought you up with gladness; but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for ye have
sinned before the Lord your God, and done that thing that is evil before him.
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But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children,
and ask mercy of the Lord.
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As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children, which
would not keep my covenant,
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That thou bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoil, that there may be no offspring
of them.
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Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be put out of the earth: for
they have despised my covenant.
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Woe be unto thee, Assur, thou that hidest the unrighteous in thee! O thou wicked people,
remember what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrha;
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Whose land lieth in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so also will I do unto them that
hear me not, saith the Almighty Lord.
10
Thus saith the Lord unto Esdras, Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem,
which I would have given unto Israel.
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Their glory also will I take unto me, and give these the everlasting tabernacles, which I had
prepared for them.
12
They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savour; they shall neither labour, nor
be weary.
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Go, and ye shall receive: pray for few days unto you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom
is already prepared for you: watch.
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Take heaven and earth to witness; for I have broken the evil in pieces, and created the good:
for I live, saith the Lord.
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Mother, embrace thy children, and bring them up with gladness, make their feet as fast as a
pillar: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.
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And those that be dead will I raise up again from their places, and bring them out of the graves:
for I have known my name in Israel.
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Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.
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